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TROM: Similarities and Differences
By Flemming Funch, USA I HAVE STARTED playing with TROM, and have worked with Level 2 since yesterday. The technique is deceptively simple. And not particularly new for that matter. I had included almost the same technique in one of the modules of my training courses, amongst many others. I just did not give it any particular significance. It is also similar to some techniques Rowland Barkley has come up with. For those who don't have the book TROM (The Resolution of Mind by Dennis H. Stephens), it consists of four levels. All of them do-it-yourself, except for Level 1 if one needs it. Level 1 would be traditional objective processes, but would only be run if one has trouble differentiating between what is subjective and what is objective. Most people would not need to do that, Stephens says. Level 2 technique Now, Level 2 is basically this technique: a. Select some insignificant scene in the past. b. Pick an object from the scene. c. Pick an object visible in the present that is different from the past object. d. How is it different from the object in b? (Repeat c & d while they produce change.) e. Pick a present object that is similar to the past object in a. f. How is it similar? (repeat e & f while they produce change, and go back and do c & d again, and so forth.) g. Then pick another past object and do the cycle over again from c. When one is flat on easy objects, one can pick more loaded objects from more significant incidents. h. One can then pick people out of incidents and do the same thing: Compare them with people in the present. First fairly insignificant ones, then more loaded ones. My experience Now, I picked first some objects that were pretty much in present time, but somewhere else. Like, at home I picked an object in my office, and vice versa. That worked fine. I became more aware of the properties of the objects, and they became more available at the same time. Then I figured I had better pick some objects that were really in the past. Which is not particularly easy, since usually I do not concern myself with the past. We could say that I have "erased" my past. I very rarely have any kind of issue with anything that is in the past. So, it is certainly not for that reason I would want to try this process, but to see what else there could be to it. It took me about twenty minutes to get hold of anything at all from the past. It was a little chair I had when I was three. Looking at differences and similarities with objects now, the chair quickly became really vivid. And after a while I could contain the chair and the objects now in the same place and superimpose the chair on the current scene with almost the same level of reality. The reality of the chair also brought back some emotions, and the realization of how limited my space was at that time. I didn't like looking at differences repetitively and then similarities repetitively. That kind of thing doesn't work for me any longer. I have to do it more holistically. So, I looked at both similarities and differences for each object. I then picked some other object, from when I was around ten. After I had worked with the second object from my room at the time, the whole room and the house at the time started becoming very vividly available. Lots of details I had forgotten came up. Or rather, I could go there and explore the place and look around as if I were there. Noticing many details I had not given a thought to for twenty years. It is not in any way the first time I have done that, but this seems to be a fast way of getting to that point. Well, more later, but this does seem to be a very good technique for sorting out one's relation with the past. It certainly should help with "finding the past" like Stephens says. http://www.ivymag.org/IVy.html IVy, the familiar name for "International Viewpoints" is an on cyber magazine, sent four times a year Internationally to those who subscribe. Here is the place to look if you are interested in using Freezone Clearing and Enhancement Technology to help yourself and others. Contact us via email, [email protected] if you need any assistance. To get a free copy: email us at [email protected] and write Free IVy, please! in subject line Website: IVyMag.org
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